One nerve connects your vital organs, sensing and shaping your health. If we learn to control it, the future of...

In every country in the world, male suicides outnumber female. Will Storr asks why. Finally, Drummond had everything he’d ever...

If you could take the high out of drugs, what would be the point in taking them? Sujata Gupta meets...

The theme of fetishism and disability came up in ribald and raunchy conversation during the Talking Dirty session at the...

Millie Dollar sashays onto the stage in a green, feathered dress to conclude the evening’s entertainment with a sultry burlesque...

Tommy the chimpanzee got his day in court on 8 October 2014. He was unable to attend the hearing in...

From the wisdom of family to doctors’ advice from the late 19th century, trends in parenting have waxed and waned....

How do you entertain a grumpy three-year-old? My strategy is generally: (a) panic; (b) rustle about in my bag for some...

In the 1970s and 1980s, Susan Sontag wrote about the metaphors that surround TB, AIDS and cancer, arguing that their...

I was 14 when I was told that Dad was dying. I was sitting on the floor of our lounge....

The first psychology training placement I ever had was treating adults who had depression and anxiety. The building I worked...

“Is it true… blondes have more fun?” Advertising for hair dye has played on our follicular insecurities since the 1950s,...

Naloxone can reverse an otherwise fatal heroin overdose within minutes. Carrie Arnold meets the doctors who put this remarkable drug...

“It was one of those perfect days. I think that’s what everyone remembers. And now whenever the day’s too perfect...

The train line from mainland Kobe is a marvel of urban transportation. Opened in 1981, Japan’s first driverless, fully automated...